Integrating file transfers via FileTransfer2

[niekgroot]

Can you think of a way to initiate file transfers in VSCode via FTCon included in FileTransfer2? This would deliver a further integrated dev environment, and benefit those with a remote deploy workflow.

See below sample console output (which works fine, if just a little manual).

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\AMX Control Disc\FileTransfer 2> .\FTCon.exe ‘\Programming\home.tkn' 172.16.1.220 -Boot
    
FTCon [Version 1.1]
(C) Copyright 2005 AMX Corp.

Attempting to Send File-home.tkn
Transferring home.tkn
266021 of 266021
Transfer Complete
Attempting to Send File-empty.src
Transferring empty.src
246 of 246
Transfer Complete
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\AMX Control Disc\FileTransfer 2>

[sentry07]

I've been pondering how to do it for a very long time. I think I could tie into the task system but I'm still not sure how to set up the transfer information. Maybe I can parse the APW file and use information from in there. I'm still learning how to tie into VSCode API stuff.

[niekgroot]

Could consider constraining initial feature scope to transfer only the TKN file created by the last successful compile? .jar and other files would need to be transferred manually, but as those are not typically modified using VSCode or NetLinx Studio, perhaps thats acceptable.

This would require a method to track the TKN file name between the compile and transfer task, and a mechanism to specify the transfer target (maybe the workspace/folder settings)?

[niekgroot]

An alternative perhaps simpler approacher could be to use a file transfer list file ("ftlfile"), which the user would edit as part of the VSCode workspace, and could be passed to FTCon as an argument;

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\AMX Control Disc\FileTransfer 2> .\FTCon.exe
    
FTCon [Version 1.1]
(C) Copyright 2005 AMX Corp.

Not enough arguments

FTCon "apwfile" ["projid"] ["sysid"]
FTCon "axwfile" ["projid"] ["sysid"]
FTCon "ftlfile" -Send|-Receive
FTCon "file" commsetting [mapping] -Send|-Receive
       -Boot -Axcess -Optimize -TPD=BIF -KPB=GF -User="username:password"

apwfile     APW file to send
axwfile     AXW file to send
ftlfile     FTL file to send

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